U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice travels to Mexico this week for talks on U.S. help in Mexico's battle against drug gangs as well as other issues, the State Department said on Tuesday.

Rice plans to meet Mexican Foreign Minister Patricia Espinosa and other officials on Wednesday and Thursday in the Pacific tourist resort of Puerto Vallarta.

From http://www.iachr.org/Comunicados/English/2008/hearings133eng.htm

Wednesday, October 22, 2008 – Room A

Public hearings held in this room will be webcast live on the OAS Web site, www.oas.org.

The videos will also be available for viewing later on the OAS and IACHR Web sites.

The audio recordings will be posted on the IACHR site, www.iachr.org.

10:15 – 11:15

Impact of public-security policies on human rights in Mexico

Centro de Derechos Humanos Agustín Pro Juárez (PRODH) / Centro de Derechos Humanos Francisco de Vitoria O.P. (CDHFFV) / Asistencia Legal para los Derechos Humanos A.C. (Asilegal) / Centro Nacional de Comunicación Social (CENCOS) / Red Nacional de Organismos Civiles de Derechos Humanos (REDTDT) / Center for Justice and International Law (CEJIL)

Government of Mexico

11:30 – 12:30

Rights to the use and exploitation of natural resources and prior consultation with respect to the Cucapá indigenous people of Mexico

Pueblo Indígena Cucapá / Comisión Ciudadana de Derechos Humanos del Noroeste, A.C. (CCDH) / Comisión Mexicana de Defensa y Promoción de los Derechos Humanos (CMDPDH)

Government of Mexico

2:00 – 3:00

Complaints regarding the criminalization of human rights defenders in Guerrero, Mexico

Red Guerrerense de Organismos Civiles de Derechos Humanos / Centro Regional de Defensa de Derechos Humanos “José Ma. Morelos y Pavón / Fundación para el Debido Proceso Legal (DPLF) / Centro de Derechos Humanos de la Montaña “Tlachinollan”

Government of Mexico

3:15 – 4:15

Case 12.626 – Jessica Gonzales, United States

Human Rights Institute, Columbia Law School

Government of the United States

4:30 – 5:30

Border Wall in Texas, United States

University of Texas Working Group on Human Rights and the Border Wall

Government of the United States

5:45 – 6:45

Petition 1186/04 - Opario Lemoth Morris et al. (Buzos Miskitos), Honduras

Asociación de Misquitos Hondureños de Buzos Lisiados (AMHBLI) / Miskitu Indiang Mairin Asia Takanka (MIMAT) / Consejo de Ancianos Almuk Nani Asla Takanka/ Center for Justice and International Law (CEJIL)

Government of Honduras

Wednesday, October 22, 2008 – Room B

These hearings will not be webcast.

The audio recordings will be available on the IACHR Web site, www.iachr.org.

9:00 – 10:00

Case 12.546 – Juan Jacobo Arbenz Guzmán, Guatemala

Clínica de los Derechos Humanos Internacionales Washington College of Law, American University / Erick Arbenz

Government of Guatemala

10:15 – 11:15

Case 12.590 – José Miguel Gudiel Álvarez et al. (Diario Militar), Guatemala

Fundación Myrna Mack

Government of Guatemala

11:30 – 12:30

Attacks on actors in the justice system in Guatemala

Fundación Myrna Mack / Center for Justice and International Law (CEJIL)

Government of Guatemala

2:00 – 3:00

Protection of human rights defenders in Guatemala

Estudios Comparados en Ciencias Penales de Guatemala (ICCPG) / Centro para la Acción Legal en Derechos Humanos (CALDH) / Center for Justice and International Law (CEJIL)

Government of Guatemala

3:15 – 4:15

Ineffectiveness of labor justice for agricultural workers in Guatemala

Pastoral de la Tierra Interdiocesana / The Bernard and Audre Rapoport, Center for Human Rights at the University of Texas

Government of Guatemala

4:30 – 6:00

Follow-up to complaints regarding extrajudicial executions/ Actions in response to murders of protected persons in Colombia

MINGA / Center for Justice and International Law (CEJIL) / Corporación Colectivo de Abogados José Alvear Restrepo / Grupo Interdisciplinario de Derechos Humanos (GIDH) / Comisión Intereclesial de Justicia y Paz (CIJP) / Comisión Colombiana de Juristas (CCJ) / Fundación Comité de Solidaridad con los Presos Políticos (FCSPP) / Sisma Mujer / Corporación REINICIAR / Corporación Jurídica Libertad (CJL)

Government of Colombia

The History of U.S. - Colombia Military Relations

Wednesday, October 22, 2008
12:00pm to 1:30pm
Intercultural Center, McGhee Library

This talk will be specially informative for those people interested in security issues, military aid, etc.

There is a long tradition of military collaboration between Colombia, a traditional ally of the United States in the Western Hemisphere and the U.S. Military.

Dr. Bradley Coleman is a historian currently working at the United States Southern Command whose major fields of study are United States, Military, International Relations, and Latin America . Dr. Coleman has published numerous books on the subject, below are some of his works:

Colombia and the United States: The Making of an Inter-American Alliance, 1939-1960
(Kent, Ohio: Kent State University Press, 2008).

“The Colombian Army in Korea, 1950-1954,” The Journal of Military History 69 (October 2005): 1137-1178.

“The Alliance Transformed: U.S.-Colombian Security Cooperation, 1950-1960,” in
Kendall D. Gott, ed., Security Assistance: U.S. and International Historical Perspectives (Ft. Leavenworth, KS: Combat Studies Institute Press, 2006): 365-389.

“Colombia, U.S. Relations with,” in Thomas Leonard, ed., The Encyclopedia of U.S.-Latin American Relations (Washington, D.C.: CQ Press, A Division of Congressional Quarterly, forthcoming).

“Korean War,” in Thomas Leonard, ed., The Encyclopedia of U.S.-Latin American
Relations (Washington, D.C.: CQ Press, A Division of Congressional Quarterly,
forthcoming).

“Marshall, George C.,” in Thomas Leonard, ed., The Encyclopedia of U.S.-Latin American Relations (Washington, D.C.: CQ Press, A Division of Congressional Quarterly, forthcoming).

Review of Latin America During World War II by Thomas Leonard and John Bratzel, eds. (Lantham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield, 2006) in The Journal of Military History 71 (July 2007): 955-957.

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